Word: foche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goethe will persist to annoy and fascinate hundreds of generations of school children. Even such a recent cataclysm as the World War did not seriously disturb the order of rank in the international hall of fame. For all of their "saving of the world" and their "redemption of democracy." Foch, Clemenceau, Wilson and the organizing and technical genius that managed the enterprise were unable to displace Anatole France, Maxim Gorky, Bernard Shaw. That the crux of the matter is literary or artistic ability, can be demonstrated by an interesting test. A man without these gifts has seldom blazed out very...
Charles M. Schwab: "I arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, having cut short my trip to Europe because of illness. Although I was ill most of the time, I got the impression from informal chats with Lloyd George, Bonar Law, and Marshal Foch that Europe will come out all right...
Delcassé built for France a new foreign policy. His architectonic genius determined the conditions under which France would fight when the Kaiser was ready to announce Der Tag. Without Delcassé France might now be a German province and Foch a refugee...
...Gond almost to the gates of Paris--German cavalry were in the town of Claye for a few hours, but fifteen miles away--it was the army of Gallieni, on the extreme right flank of Von Kluck, that began the counter attack which dislocated the German line and gave Foch his chance to break through. Thus these old cochers of the boulevards who drove an army of thousands to the battle-ground saved, if you will, not only Paris but much besides, as most Americans are glad to remember...
...technique, for it has become impossible in the last 50 years to teach more than such general scientific studies as Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique. All men who graduate from the school, however, are almost certain of obtaining a good opening in professional work; Marshals Foch, Joffre and Fayolle are numbered among its graduates...